Lesson: Failure is necessary in order to survive.

It’s been true for eons, and will never stop being so, no matter how much plundering Liberalism we keep throwing down the rat-hole.

(Actually, the reflexive doses of corpulent Liberalism just protract the failure.)

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While I understand “some” of your points, your anger is misdirected at the wrong people. Both management and the UAW played a role in the implosion that occured in Detroit over the years. Both parties went along never thinking that either had to adapt to changing times. Management didn’t have to create more innovative, fuel efficient cars that American consumers actually liked or didn’t equate with lemons. The UAW never thought that perhaps their big wig leaders/reps and worker salaries were a tad bloated.

Jeff, why are you attacking college grads? College grads work their butts off to get where they are too. They went to school and learned a skill and then went into the real world to prove themselves. Yes, some people played the financial system (such as upper management and brokers) while others did their job and expected nothing more than their paycheck.

Do you not have a problem with the Job Banks program? Where workers were paid not to work? Seems kind of cushy while the rest of us (and the rest of the world) apply for unemployment, then look for work, interview for jobs, wash, repeat. Gee, if only I could be part of a cushy union.

Unions are a fraud. I’m a social studies teacher by trade and one of the big turnoffs for me is the teacher’s unions in this country who mandate who gets paid what and when. I found out that many school districts are reluctant to hire teachers with master’s degrees because they automatically get paid more than those with bachelor’s degrees based on payscale schedules mandated by teacher’s unions. Unions have now priced out a whole sector of people (those with master’s degrees but seeking first teaching job) because school districts can’t afford them. This sounds familiar.

I grew up in a union household. My father was a unionized steamfitter/plumber for 30+ years and when he got injured on the job he applied for disability. When he applied to the union for representation and help, he got a big FU. What good are unions when they only serve their leadership and their political masters in Washington?

Many of us are speaking from life experience not an urge to stick it to American workers. I saw what my father went through and it WASN’T an isolated incident. Who takes care of your kids when teachers are out sick, have training etc.? Substitute teachers. They’ve been trying to unionize for years because of the crappy work environment, pay, and benefits. These are people who are just as highly educated as regular teachers but are only paid as little as $60 per day unlike your precious union buddies. The biggest resistance to unionized subs are, wait for it, TEACHER’S UNIONS.

Isn’t it interesting that on one hand, the big unions want to keep their cushy benefits/jobs at the expense of both the Big 3 and American people, yet they’re threatened by competition and innovation that keeps industry going?

Jeff/Hannibal, you can’t have it both ways. I have no beef with unions if they actually stay out of politics, stop promotiing illegal employment, represent workers, and don’t restrict industry development and competition. Yet, do you not see how inflated the auto union benefits are in comparison to other fields? Most people’s salaries haven’t kept pace with inflation yet they’re expected to make due. Why can’t the auto workers? What makes them so special and protected? How fair is that to the rest of us?